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Mr. Amos
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on regional assistance for the north-east of England.
Mr. Leigh
Of the four North-East region counties, Cleveland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear have assisted area status, as does the Morpeth and A shington travel-to-work area in Northumberland. For 1990–91, expenditure on regional selective assistance, regional enterprise grants, regional development grants and by English Estates in the region amounted to £84 million. In addition, £97 million has been committed between 1989 and 1991 under ERDF programmes for the region, which also has access to ECSC loans.